Show by SLIDE terrible death overtakes residents of little french town on the lievre river in quebec mass of earth came roaring down at an early hour in the morning Morn lna and at least thirty per sons perished buckingham quebec half the lit alo french hamlet ot or notre dame de salette sixteen miles from hero here on the havre river disappeared sunday under tinder a sliding mountain and at least thirty of its ita small population are known to have perished at 6 5 sunday morning just as tho the little hamlet began to stir for early mass part of the mountain started to slide elide boivard the river it tore a path of death an and d destruction tor its way and those who wore were not killed filed when their homes were engulfed were left burled buried under the I 1 mass of rock and earth latest reports front from do salette malte make tile the number of known dead thirty of which elev eleven 0 n bodies have been recovered in all twenty houses were engulfed lit in the slide de calotte was built on oil the two banks of tho the river lievre ono house on the west bank containing the only telo telephone in the hamlet was tile the first obstacle in the path or of the sliding mountain and in III its krecic com communication munt with the outside world was cut oft off tha slide carried two houses on the west bank into the swollen river and across to the east bank and then covered eighteen houses there the river was waa dami dammed lied and those who were not nat killed in the avalanche were drown drowned edw do de salette was built on a blue clay which rested on a stratum of littlestone limestone five years ago there was a similar dr at Poti pere and each spring the inhabitants along the river live lit in fear of land slides then slipped gently into the river without loss of life landslides land slides along the river are common each spring with the rains and swollen streams |